September 30, 1848 - October 5, 1848

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1848 Sept 30 Cutting Tobacco in big & little
new ground & making Tobacco sticks
Finished curing 2 Houses Tobacco & about
prize Barn at this timefair & warm
Sent Henry to Mr McCullocks
& Exchanged Ten 10 Bus. wheat, as
his is whiter than mine, mine is a
little mixed, — with red wheat some how
cut 625 sticks Tobacco in Lot -
Second cutting in big & little new ground
[lost in margin] sticks in second yrs ground is
sticks, making in all

Oct. 1st Raining this morning & untill
nearly 12 oclock, warm weather —

Oct 2 Cut & Hung up to this day 3000
& over. finished cutting in big new ground
worming second yrs ground & succoring
Halling wood & shoemaking —

3 Halling up old Top stack & stacking
straw etc etc Fed shoemaking
Sent 125 lbs old Iron to Miles Tuckers
& sent Henry to Jno Tucker for 1000 shingles
for X saw, worming & succoring Tobacco
began to Pull Mountain field corn,

4th Halling Tobacco out of new ground to
mountain field Barn & Halling corn home
from mountain field

5 Housing Lot Tobacco shucking
& Housing corn put in corn house
about 13 Bbls

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Ben W. Brumfield

Could the ditto mark at the beginning of "sticks in second yrs ground is" refer to 625?

fransalman

I don't know. I've never seen JWG use ditto marks as small as what these are. Usually he either uses Do (superscript o), or makes large ditto marks. Notice also that he doesn't put a number after "making in all." Sometimes he's just a bit careless.

fransalman

I just noticed a similar ditto mark in Vol 2, Book, 1st July 1949, which looks to apply to the date, as in repeating 1st July, so this may indeed be a ditto mark. Interesting.